[2974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts - Regionalizing Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Thu May 23 23:08:42 1996
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <chuckie@panix.com>
To: dsiegel@rtd.com (Dave Siegel)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605240251.TAA24161@seagull.rtd.com> from "Dave Siegel" at May 23, 96 07:51:50 pm
Dave Siegel writes:
>
>Since these are designed to be regional exchanges, one would presume that
>transit is still available elsewhere.
>
>Even at the large carrier level, I should think that the priority NAPs,
>as well as the private interconnects, would contain complete information
>on the other networks to back up any failure to route at a regional exchange.
Er, um, well yes, but ideally if you get peering from all the big
boys, you wouldn't need to purchase transit from someone.
I think the idea of only exchanging local routes at any given regional
exchange is not a bad idea, but I don't see how it would really end up
working properly in a fluctuating environment.
Alec
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